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Hidden Heretics - Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (Paperback)
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Hidden Heretics - Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
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Loot Price R478
Discovery Miles 4 780
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A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the
outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their
ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you
questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you
to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?
Hidden Heretics tells the fascinating, often heart-wrenching
stories of married ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women in
twenty-first-century New York who lead "double lives" in order to
protect those they love. While they no longer believe that God gave
the Torah to Jews at Mount Sinai, these hidden heretics continue to
live in their families and religious communities, even as they
surreptitiously break Jewish commandments and explore forbidden
secular worlds in person and online. Drawing on five years of
fieldwork with those living double lives and the rabbis, life
coaches, and religious therapists who minister to, advise, and
sometimes excommunicate them, Ayala Fader investigates religious
doubt and social change in the digital age. The internet, which
some ultra-Orthodox rabbis call more threatening than the
Holocaust, offers new possibilities for the age-old problem of
religious uncertainty. Fader shows how digital media has become a
lightning rod for contemporary struggles over authority and truth.
She reveals the stresses and strains that hidden heretics
experience, including the difficulties their choices pose for their
wives, husbands, children, and, sometimes, lovers. In following
those living double lives, who range from the religiously observant
but open-minded on one end to atheists on the other, Fader delves
into universal quandaries of faith and skepticism, the ways digital
media can change us, and family frictions that arise when a person
radically transforms who they are and what they believe. In stories
of conflicts between faith and self-fulfillment, Hidden Heretics
explores the moral compromises and divided loyalties of individuals
facing life-altering crossroads.
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